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A Police and Crime Commissioner has angered his political opponents by writing
to his Labour Party colleagues advertising a vacancy for a £53,000-a-year
deputy.

Mark Burns-Williamson, the Commissioner for West Yorkshire, defended his
decision, saying that he had been elected on a party political ticket and
needed his deputy to operate effectively in the fourth-largest police area
in England.

Mr Burns-Williamson said: “PCCs [Police and Crime Commissioners] across the
country in forces much smaller and less complex than our own have appointed
deputies, assistants and advisers already. I have chosen to conduct a
thorough interview process rightly open to Labour